Landlady who likes to hoard land

Wang Chenggong also returned from his inspection trip.

They also brought a lot of materials and pictures.

After discussing it for an afternoon and conducting on-site inspections, the brother and sister finally chose the location, which was the ginkgo forest and its surrounding area.

Wang Chengyu handed over all land-related information and subsequent matters to Wang Chenggong and then left it to his own devices.

Wang Chengyu is currently riding his electric bike towards Xu Wen's school.

Every semester, the school holds a parent-teacher meeting in the second week. When both children were in elementary school, Wang Chengyu and Xu Jianren would attend the parent-teacher meeting separately.

Now that Xu Wen is in junior high school, his parent-teacher conferences are at different times than Xu Yao's, so they can avoid each other.

As we approached school, the roads were already packed with cars and people. They might not be enthusiastic about anything else, but they absolutely had to be at parent-teacher meetings.

Wang Chengyu has experience with this: never drive to a parent-teacher meeting, because there's nowhere to park.

I rode my electric bike smoothly into the school's designated parking area.

I walked to the classroom according to the location sent by the teacher in the group.

Students were frequently seen on duty along the way, both to maintain order and to provide directions to parents.

After navigating through the sea of ​​people, we finally arrived at Xu Wen's class. There were already seven or eight parents in the class, and three or five of them were chatting with the homeroom teacher on the podium.

Wang Chengyu deliberately arrived half an hour early, hoping to take this opportunity to find out about Xu Wen's academic progress at school from Xu Wen's homeroom teacher.

Other parents were also very enthusiastic and arrived even earlier than her.

She wasn't worried about Xu Wen's studies; she mainly wanted to understand his learning attitude and whether he got along well with his classmates.

After signing in on the attendance sheet at the door, she joined the conversation on the stage.

Taking advantage of a break in their conversation, I quickly greeted them.

"Hello, Teacher Zhao, I am Xu Wen's mother. I would like to know about Xu Wen's learning situation at school."

To save time, you must introduce yourself first. There are so many students in the class, and the teachers don't know most of the students' parents, except for those from the parent committee.

"Xu Wen's parents are here!"

When the homeroom teacher, Ms. Zhao, saw Wang Chengyu, she was very enthusiastic. Xu Wen had ranked first in the class and first in the grade in the final exams last semester. In any school, teachers are always exceptionally friendly and tolerant towards students who excel in their studies.

"Xu Wen performs very well at school and has a positive attitude towards learning. He gets along well with his classmates, but he doesn't like to speak up in class. However, he has a solid grasp of the knowledge, so it doesn't matter whether he speaks up or not."

Teacher Zhao said with a smile that she could completely understand students who were good at studying, could win honor for the class, and did not cause trouble, even if they did not like to speak up.

"Oh, you're Xu Wen's mother. Your child is doing so well in school, why are you still worried? If my child had Xu Wen's grades, I wouldn't care about anything else."

A slightly overweight parent with a prosperous appearance said to Wang Chengyu, clearly having a good understanding of the students' learning situation.

"Academic performance is important, but so are interpersonal relationships and learning attitude. I hope he can get along well with his classmates, help each other, and make progress together."

Wang Chengyu said politely.

"Xu Wen's mom, where does your Xu Wen go for tutoring classes?"

Another parent, a thin man with a professional and elite air, asked.

"Xu Wen doesn't usually attend extracurricular tutoring classes, but he studied math olympiad and French during the summer vacation."

Wang Chengyu said truthfully, there was nothing to hide.

"Learning French? I remember Xu Wen also studied Japanese in his spare time. He's in the second year of junior high now, so he can't afford to spread his energy too much. He should focus on his schoolwork."

Teacher Zhao was worried that her students were learning too many different things and that it would distract them, so she kindly offered this advice.

“You’re right, Teacher Zhao. I only let him study during the summer vacation, and then I’ll stop when school starts.”

As soon as school started, Xu Wen's math and French classes were suspended. There was no need to waste time on them anymore; the regular classes for learning the system were enough.

"Xu Wen's mom, your Xu Wen is really amazing. My Miao Miao has her weekends filled with private tutoring sessions. During the summer vacation, in order to ensure the quality of her learning, we specially went to J City and hired teachers from J City to teach her for the past two months."

The thin parent adjusted his glasses and said, seemingly envying Xu Wen, but actually showing off his family's wealth.

Wang Chengyu remembered that this parent was Hao Miaomiao's parent from their class. She had heard Xu Wen say that Hao Miaomiao was second in their class and in the top ten of the grade.

Hao Miaomiao had seven subjects: Chinese, Mathematics, English, Politics, History, Geography, and Biology. She had to take five extra classes. Except for Politics and History, she hired private tutors for the other five subjects. The private tutoring on weekends alone cost her two thousand yuan per weekend.

One-on-one tutoring in junior high costs 200 yuan per hour, and two hours constitutes one lesson, costing 400 yuan. Five subjects would mean five lessons, totaling 2,000 yuan, which would amount to 8,000 yuan per month.

Wang Chengyu was secretly astonished. Local tutoring cost this much, but J City was their provincial capital, where one-on-one tutoring sessions cost almost twice as much as in their local area. The expenses for this summer vacation would be far greater.

"Miaomiao's mom, your Miaomiao is also very good. You could reduce some of her tutoring classes. It's too tiring to keep her up like this all the time!"

Knowing about Hao Miaomiao's situation, Teacher Zhao offered her advice, suggesting that as long as Hao Miaomiao listened attentively in class during the first and second years of junior high, there was no need for her to attend extracurricular tutoring classes.

Enrolling in five out of seven courses, like Hao Miaomiao did, is even more inadvisable. Too much pressure on the child can easily lead to a loss of interest in learning, which is counterproductive.

“Miao Miao’s mom, I also feel too tired. My Shi Wen doesn’t want to do English and math classes every weekend. She’s always throwing tantrums at me because of her extracurricular tutoring classes.”

It turned out that the chubby-faced parent was Wang Shiwen's mother, and Wang Chengyu secretly matched them up.

Wang Shiwen was also among the top five in her class, and it turned out that she had also enrolled in extracurricular tutoring classes on weekends.

"Teacher Zhao, Shiwen's mom, Miaomiao wanted to learn on her own initiative. We didn't force her. She has to take physical education in the high school entrance exam, so we added two more physical education classes every weekend this semester."

The money is a minor issue; the main problem is that the classes are almost too many to schedule. I feel that weekends are even more tiring than when she goes to school.

These subjects are all important, and I can't give up any of them. The three main subjects, Chinese, Math, and English, are important, right? Geography and Biology will have their high school entrance exams after the New Year, which are equally urgent.

Although physical education isn't tested until the high school entrance exam in the third year of junior high, we all know that physical fitness requires long-term training to show results; you can't improve your grades in a short period of time. We have to start training now.

Hao Miaomiao's mother spoke eloquently, and after listening to her, the other parents felt that what she said made a lot of sense. They all agreed.

"It would be too expensive to have all children tutored one-on-one. But I've heard that one-on-one tutoring is more effective. If my family could afford it, I would like to have all my children tutored one-on-one."

Wang Chengyu discovered that almost every child in the class had to attend weekend tutoring classes. The intense competition in society has caused parents to transfer all their anxiety onto their children. If this is the case in their third-tier city, imagine how overwhelming it must be in big cities!

Seeing that other parents agreed with her point of view, Hao Miaomiao's mother became even more excited.

"You don't know, we're starting physical education classes late; some kids have been training since the first year of junior high."

There's also the one-on-one tutoring this weekend. My Miaomiao only has classes on weekends. I heard from a friend that her child's classmate has to take private lessons after school every day.

Those private tutors would wait for him at his house, starting as soon as he got home from school and continuing until midnight. That was truly exhausting!

Hao Miaomiao's mother's eyes were full of anticipation, and she clearly agreed with this approach.